Stalin

Question 1

Policies (2 things)

Answer 1

Used terror to crush dissent (Army purge of 2/3 of senior officers), used slave labour and forced collectivisation

Question 2

National Government (2 things)

Answer 2

Totalitarian dictatorship, only 16 of 71 members of 1934 Central Committee alive in 1939

Question 3

Local Government

Answer 3

Power in localities indistinguishable from party. Party underwent serious of purges (chitskas) - 40,000 members purged

Question 4

Judiciary (4 things)

Answer 4

System similar to Lenin but used differently, Kirov short 1st December 1934 - Decree and NKVD emergency powers (no defence or prosecution lawyers and immediate executions). Show trials

Question 5

Secret Police

Answer 5

NKVD - purges - 1 million shot in 1937-38. Gulags - 40 million sent over.

Question 6

Censorship (3 things)

Answer 6

Complete control. Tighter control - 1932 only members of Union of Soviet Writers could publish. No foreign radio.